[Magdalen] Siege in Sydney

[Sally Davies]

Oh, should have read the article more carefully. It looks as though Police
had no choice once gunfire broke out...but still doesn't explain why
someone who had "political asylum" didn't have that revoked and wasn't
sent back  to Iran the moment he broke the law in Australia, never mind a
long string of offences.

Sally D

On Tuesday, 16 December 2014, Sally Davies <sally.davies at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keith showed me a lovely social-media trend that started before the siege
> had even ended: "Ride with you", which arose as a warm hearted Australian
> response to a plea from a Muslim who expressed fears of going on public
> transport in the aftermath of something like this.
>
> I'm sure the police had their reasons for decided to storm in but it can't
> be called a good outcome. This week grieving South Africans are preparing
> to receive the body of Pierre Korkie, killed in a failed rescue attempt in
> Yemen, literally the day before he was due to be released after lengthy
> negotiations by a local Muslim charity, Gift of the Givers. The American
> hostage who was the main object of the military rescue effort was also
> killed.
>
> It cannot help in these situations if we don't have a sense of who the
> hostage takers are, or what they want - but surely it is more of an issue
> that a guy like this can be free to do what he likes, get weapons and so on
> given his violent and abusive history. Much more of an issue than whatever
> violent ideology he happens to be espousing.
>
>
> Sally D
>
> On Tuesday, 16 December 2014, Claudine Chionh <anglican at claudinec.net
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','anglican at claudinec.net');>> wrote:
>
>> Cue the increase in alarmism from our politicians and general
>> Islamophobia. It now seems more accurate to describe the perpetrator as
>> an unhinged individual who had murdered his wife and has a history of
>> violence against other women, and who was also attracted to the message
>> of ISIS - but many commentators are only picking up on the Islam angle.
>> I made that mistake in my first post here.
>>
>> Claudine
>>
>> On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, at 01:14 PM, Marion Thompson wrote:
>> > And thank God for the end of it.  A terrible experience for the hostages
>> > and everyone.
>>
>